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by glhaynes 308 days ago
Did IBM consider purchasing Sun?
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wmf 307 days ago
Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.
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jeberle 307 days ago
Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.
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whartung 307 days ago
Kind of like Oracle did.
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rbanffy 307 days ago
Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.
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